diff --git a/java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/TreeReaderFactory.java b/java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/TreeReaderFactory.java
index ecc02fb8de..2a2adf50d7 100644
--- a/java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/TreeReaderFactory.java
+++ b/java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/TreeReaderFactory.java
@@ -2292,10 +2292,15 @@ private void readDictionaryStream(InStream in) throws IOException {
           int dictionaryBufferSize = dictionaryOffsets[dictionaryOffsets.length - 1];
           dictionaryBuffer = new byte[dictionaryBufferSize];
           int pos = 0;
-          int chunkSize = in.available();
-          byte[] chunkBytes = new byte[chunkSize];
+          // check if dictionary size is smaller than available stream size
+          // to avoid ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
+          int readSize = Math.min(in.available(), dictionaryBufferSize);
+          byte[] chunkBytes = new byte[readSize];
           while (pos < dictionaryBufferSize) {
-            int currentLength = in.read(chunkBytes, 0, chunkSize);
+            int currentLength = in.read(chunkBytes, 0, readSize);
+            // check if dictionary size is smaller than available stream size
+            // to avoid ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
+            currentLength = Math.min(currentLength, dictionaryBufferSize - pos);
             System.arraycopy(chunkBytes, 0, dictionaryBuffer, pos, currentLength);
             pos += currentLength;
           }